A road was transformed into a TV set as filming got under way on a new star-studded comedy drama.
Former Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay will play the lead role of Lisa in Mount Pleasant, an eight-part series for Sky 1.
Liza Tarbuck and Angela Griffin are also among the cast with filming set to take place across Manchester until June.
Parts of Beech Road, Chorlton, have been taken over, including the Beech Road cafe which has been transformed into Kate's cafe.
Filming is due to end this week but camera crews will return next month. Stewart Hutcheon, co-owner of Beech Road cafe, said: “Everyone around here is really enjoying it and having a right good laugh and chat about it. I think it is a very positive thing and I’m really proud that it is being filmed in our area.”
The series, written by Shameless writer Sarah Hooper, follows the life of married Mancunian Lisa (Lindsay) who is unaware that another woman, Kate (Tarbuck), is trying to seduce her husband Dan, played by Skins star Daniel Ryan.
It is expected to be screened in autumn.
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In the article on Manchesters most wanted, more of south Manchesters most wanted came from Chorlton than anywhere else.Do they really want to be filming in such a rough area!
How droll, Minnie. 4 wanted people. One of which is from the notorious ex-council Nell Lane estate.
There's only a mile between the two, but Beech Road and Nell Lane couldn't be further apart, in terms of civility.
we used to live on beech road up until about 1979 ,we lived in the old police station ,the upstairs one,i think it is a cafe or bar now,front made of sandstone,many good memories and good people,some of which still live around beech road ,i will be visiting in june to reminise and visit richardsons fantastic bakery .
I grew up on Nell Lane. I passed all my GSCE's, A-Levels and I have a first class university degree so I am far from being un-civlil just because of where I grew up! A lot of children from Nell Lane went to Chorlton Park Primary School too and have grown up to be respectable adults! Some people should not believe every thing they read.